June 2008 Weddings
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POLL: Spending the night away from DH

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Re: POLL: Spending the night away from DH

  • I can think of 20 or so just since Jane so....I guess quite a few.  Wow, never thought about it.

    (In the hospital before/after having her, J ran two marathons, he went to a frat reunion, I went to Mexico, I went away for work, etc etc)

  • Due to a work trip for him and a work/vacation trip for me overlapping, we just came off 1 1/2 weeks apart. That's the longest we'd been apart since we met, and it was very strange. He was also apart from Madeline for that whole time, and it sucked because I know how much she missed him and vice versa.
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  • DHs schedule right now seems to be one week here, one week in Florida.  I'm used to it, even if I don't like it.  
  • This past year ( 2011) was probably the most we spent together since we've been married.

    His latest work trip ( 6 weeks and counting) still isn't the longest time though. 

  • I'm pretty sure the only nights we spent apart were when I went to visit my sister in Prague. DH wanted to come but couldn't get the time off from work. I was having a really hard time dealing with our IF and still dealing with the m/c so being able to get away was important.
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  • It doesn't happen that often since we don't really travel for work so I said a handful of times. The instances I can think of were bachelor/bachelorette parties, girl's weekends, my parent's house, etc.

    He did go away for 4 weeks right around this time last year for work but that's really rare and definitely the longest time we've spent apart.

    I don't really like it b/c I don't sleep well and I'm a very social person, so being alone in the evenings kill me. I would obviously get used to it if it happened more often though.

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  • I said just a handful of times, but now that I think about it, it's been more than that.

    DH went to San Diego for a week for the Rose Bowl a couple years ago; he had a golf outing  for a couple days; he's going to Baltimore this week for a couple days, and he'll be in Chicago for a week in March. Everything other than the Rose Bowl was work related.

    I'm a big baby and I hate it...every noise I hear throughout the night instantly becomes a murderer coming to get us. I'm really not looking forward to him going to Chicago in March--a week being a single parent of a toddler and an infant plus midterms is going to be tough. I don't know how single mamas, or those in the military do it.

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  • I don't fall into the "all the time" category, but I feel like I need an answer more than "often." 

    When Sam does have to leave it's for weeks at a time.  Right now we're in the middle of 6 weeks apart and it sucks.  It also sucks that this time he's taking a class and he's really stressed out.  I hate that I can't do anything to make it better for him! 

    But the countdown is on...we'll see him again a week from Thursday...and it can't come soon enough!

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  • We are apart for about 5 days a year when he goes on his guys fishing trip, and I take about 2 girls' weekends a year.  Then from time to time, I will crash at my mom's with the baby... so I guess it probably adds up to about 2 weeks worth of nights per year. 
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  • He usually has about 7-10 days worth of overnight trips throughout the year. I usually go away for a girl's weekend 2-4 weekends a year. So I would say it adds up to about 2-3 weeks a year that we spend the night away from each other.  

  • Not too many times and almost all of them have been work-related, when I've had to go out of town for a conference or something.
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